On the evening of June 8, the Board of Ethics and Registration for Homoeopathy (BERH) under the National Commission for Homoeopathy, a statutory body under the Ministry of AYUSH, issued a circular warning that calling registered homoeopathic practitioners “quacks” is defamatory and may be legally actionable.
The circular, signed by BERH president Dr Harcharan Jeet Kaur, declares that calling a registered homoeopathic practitioner a “quack” in any medium, including social media posts, press releases, or even FIRs, is “misleading, defamatory, and detrimental to their professional reputation.” It goes further, warning that such characterisation “may violate applicable statutory provisions and the constitutional rights of registered Homoeopathic practitioners.”
